Personal Movie Review of 127 Hours, directed by Danny Boyle.

Alright people, are you ready for the best personal movie review ever? Well, the first movie I will be reviewing is 127 Hours, starring James Franco, and directed by Danny Boyle. This movie is an adventure/biography/Drama, and was nominated for six Oscars, with another six wins, and sixty seven nominations.  After hearing all about this movie from friends for weeks, I decided to give it a whirl.  I mean you cant beat the plot- well, because its true! This movie is about Aaron Ralston, a young man who is absolutely hell bent on adventure.  The movie starts out with Ralston excitedly getting ready for his big adventure ignoring any phone calls from family, and making the decision not to tell a soul where he is going, which turns out to be a HUGE mistake on his part. He sets out alone to go canyonerring near Moab, Utah.  He meets a few girls along the way, but they end up being the only people he sees.  The whole plot of the movie is Ralston ends up getting his arm stuck under a huge boulder, and is trapped nearly six days until he does something amazing to extricate himself from the situation.  While he is there, he only has very few supplies, and very little water.  One of his supplies happens to be his camcorder which he uses to apologize to his family for what he believes to be his impending death, and it also serves as his only source of entertainment.  During his life altering adventure, he has many visions of life, which are mostly hallucinations- such as the intense desire for more than a few hundred milliliters of water a day.  While he is trapped, he examines his life and basically decides his life is worth fighting for after an intense heart wrenching premonition.  This movie is a very moving story, and a great display of human courage, and the rawness of life itself.  I give this movie two thumbs up!  Its definitely worth watching, and is highly motivating and the strength of this man is moving.  This is really one of those movies that will teach you more than a little something about life.  There is a famous tagline from this movie that explains it so well- "There is no force more powerful than the will to live."  Go rent it today!!

 

Review of the HBO movie Gia

This is a review of my all time favorite movie, Gia.  This movie is about one of the very first supermodels, Gia Marie Carangi, (played by Angelina Jolie) who burst onto the model scene in the late 1970's.  If you ask me, this is the best movie ever made!  Gia has a turbulent, imaginative childhood and is plagued by horrible feelings of isolation after her mother leaves to live with her new husband.  Gia is a raw woman who in reality, the last thing she is interested in is looks!  After an impromptu meeting with a amaetur fashion photographer, Gia decides to leave her home and go to New York City to apply at Wilhemina Models, Inc.  She storms through the door, her hair in disarray, and knife in hand, and demands to see Wilhemina herself.  Wilhemina sees something in Gia, and makes her an almost instant supermodel.  Gia battles drug addiction and broken hearts.  Gia is a lesbian who is desperately in love with her girlfriend, and her girlfriend in love with Gia.  This movie is both exciting and moving, and will hit you hard right in the heart.  I was in absolute tears by the end of this movie.  This movie won Angelina Jolie an Academy Award, and rightly so.  Angelina Jolie becomes Gia Marie Carangi.  After making several of my friends watch this movie, they all ended up thanking me and it became their favorite movie as well.  I give this movie two thumbs up!! Watch it!! You wont be disappointed, I promise!!

Review of the movie Nanny Mcphee Returns

For my next movie review, I have decided to review a rather popular childrens movie that I watched with my son last week.  The movie is Nanny Mcphee Returns.  This movie is a rather unconventional movie about a pretty conventional family!  This movie is about a struggling mother (played by Maggie Gyllenhal) whose husband is off to war, and she has three highly entergetic but very helpful children.  They are trying to take care of a huge farm all by themselves, as well as tend to their wheat crop which is their bread and butter.  As usual with siblings, there is quite a bit of bickering and quarreling that goes on.  The mother also has a job in which her boss seems to be going senile, and a brother-in-law who is constantly trying to talk her into selling the family farm so he can receive his part of the funds to pay a large gambling debt.  The family loves their farm, so the mother absolutely refuses to sell.  The family is a loving family even though they do not have a lot of money.  They also havent heard from the father for quite a while, and wonder if he is alright.  To make matters worse, their cousins from London are coming to stay for the summer.  And the reason I say matters are made worse is because the cousins are not like them at all- they are overprivledged little snots who make fun of every aspect of their life. When it is clear this family is in need of help, a mysterious woman shows up at their door one night, just as the children are fighting.  Her name is Nanny Mcphee!  She tells the mother there is no charge for her services, and that she is hear to help.  The mother is absolutely ecstatic.  Nanny Mcphee is a rather ugly woman to put it bluntly.  She has a unibrow, a huge nose, two hairy moles, a large front tooth that protrudes out of her mouth, and a rather plump body to go along with it. Nanny Mcphee is a magical nanny that any child would be totally lucky to have.  The thing about Nanny Mcphee is that "if you need her, but dont want her, she has to stay- but when you want her but no longer need her, she has to leave."  Nanny Mcphee teaches the children five lessons.  This movie is a very heartwarming tale of a loving family who just needs some help, and Nanny Mcphee proves to be just the woman who can do it!  Kids and adults of all ages should love this movie.  I absolutely give it two thumbs up!  Its definitely worth the watch!